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Gingrich Defends Making Climate Change PSA With Pelosi

My political history as far as how I feel about Newt Gingrich has been like Al Pacino’s famous line in Godfather III, except in reverse: “Just when I thought I was in, he pulls me back out!”

Gingrich, just days ago, referred to Obama’s administration the “most radical in American history.” Okay, I was starting to warm back up to the Newtmeister again… until later, when Newt explained why he did the global warming PSA with Nancy Pelosi — one of the willing tools in the leftist toolbox of that “most radical administration ever”:

Taking action on “climate change” is the excuse of choice of Obama/Pelosi/et al for the implementation of socialist policy, so Newt needs to understand that calling Obama “radical” while at the same time endorsing the modus operandi for instituting that radicalism leaves conservatives scratching their heads.

You can talk all you want, Newt, but if you run for president, especially after that explanation, if your name is on the ballot, this is what a lot of conservative voters will see:

Amen! When he’s in the PSA he says that he agrees with Pelosi that the U.S. “must take action to address climate change”. Now he says that what he meant was that we need to have a debate and that he doesn’t know if there is any global warming. He knows that he screwed up. Making the PSA was a mistake and AGW is a load of hooey. Instead of admitting it like a man he tries to weasel out of it by claiming some intent that he didn’t articulate at the time and is obviously totally bogus.

I believe Gingrich saw all the money and attention Al Gore was getting with the AGW snake oil and wanted to get in on the action. You made your bed, Newt – go lie in it with Nancy.

Upgrade your inner software Newt. There was some news about fudging the data to support claims of AGW. He is not walking back from this the same way he didn’t with his backing Scozzafava. When you’re proven wrong, and you refuse to face the facts, rationalizing is a poor excuse for being in a state of denial. Funny isn’t it, for a supposed smart guy, he sure has trouble learning when informed that he was wrong. What do you call a person like that? Unelectable.

Not long after this PSA, Gingrich appeared on Rush’s show (for the last time, I think). He made what was – at the time – the single stupidest thing I’d ever heard an alleged “conservative” politician say. I’m forced to paraphrase, but the gist was this: “Even if there is no man-made global warming, Republicans must act as if there is so that we can get involved in the crafting of the Cap & Trade Legislation. Since Cap & Trade is going to pass, we Republicans must agree that man-made global warming exists in order to be included in the drafting of the Bill. If we deny global warming or oppose the inevitable legislation, then we won’t be able to control what’s in it.”

As I said, this was the dumbest thing I’d ever heard …. at the time.
Of course, not long afterward our outgoing President Bush said “I had to abandon Free Market principles in order to save the Free Market.”
So, Newt only held the title for a couple months at best.

Still, I hope that most conservatives will one day realize that Newt is NOT a conservative … Not in any respect.